I used Page Manager for the first time today on FF 9 and JAWS 12 (JAWS is a screen-reader).

I noticed that the configuration gear (link to expose options like 'Add content' for each region), or to expose things like 'settings' for a panel, is being read as 'link #'. This is likely because there is no anchor text.

Recommendation

Provide at least an @title attribute on the anchors, or a span within the anchor with class="element-invisible". @title is read by screen-readers when an anchor has no other text.

Comments

merlinofchaos’s picture

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Project: Chaos Tool Suite (ctools) » Panels
Version: 7.x-1.x-dev » 7.x-3.x-dev
Component: Page Manager » Code

This one should be relatively easy to correct. This is actually part of Panels.

Usually people misfile CTools issues under Panels. This is a rare one going the other way. :)

it is unfortunately a known issue that the drag and drop accessibility is non-existent.

mgifford’s picture

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Issue tags: +Accessibility

Tagging. Gotta try to bring some of the accessibility folks to look at panels more.

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Related issue #1962454: icon-addcontent.png missing alt text on node/1/panel_content.

I guess someone just needs to roll up a patch.